6.1.4 Critical Response and Text Comparison
Compare the examined short story with a supplied literary or non-literary text, analysing content, language, style and meaning.
How to use this English-interface Cymraeg guide
Read the strategy in English, then return to the Welsh source: quote and analyse its exact wording and produce every assessed response in accurate Cymraeg.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Critical understanding of the supplied unseen Welsh text
Exam cue: Confirm the current WJEC route, unit, task and assessment control before choosing a reading, writing or speaking strategy.
Concept 2
Relevant links and contrasts in content, viewpoint, language, form and style
Exam cue: Choose one meaningful comparison criterion at a time and support it with evidence from both the short story and unseen text.
Concept 3
Accurate, clear and refined comparative Welsh writing
Exam cue: Use the English guidance to plan the skill, but cite, analyse and produce the assessed response in accurate Welsh.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Writing two separate analyses or forcing superficial links that ignore form and purpose.
Guardrail: Do not translate away the assessed Welsh, bind optional texts universally or combine mutually exclusive award routes.
Answering the assessed task in English or translating away the Welsh wording, quotation, register, grammar or literary effect being assessed.
Guardrail: Do not translate away the assessed Welsh, bind optional texts universally or combine mutually exclusive award routes.
Binding every learner to an optional centre-selected text, poem or stimulus, or combining Single and Double Award units into one route.
Guardrail: Use Units 1-3 plus 4a for Single or Units 1-3 plus 4b, 5 and 6 for Double; never add weights or tasks across routes.
Memory anchors
testun llenyddol
A literary text whose form and language create imaginative meaning.
testun anllenyddol
A non-literary text shaped by an informative or practical purpose.
cyswllt
A meaningful link explained through both texts.
cyferbyniad
A contrast that reveals a difference in meaning or method.
maen prawf
The shared criterion that controls a comparison.
ysgrifennu cymharol
Comparative writing that integrates evidence from both texts.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What is the shared subject?
How do purposes differ?
Answer all questions to submit.
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